[ale] OT: power saving devices

[Geoffrey]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 16:55 -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>>
>>>Printer:  After 1 hour of consistent near-zero amperage on line (i.e. 
>>>printer is idle), cut line power until printer power switch is
>>>cycled. 
>>>I know this is do-able, as some newer X-10 light modules will allow
>>>you to cycle a lamp switch and power on the module rather than having
>>>to 
>>>hunt down the X-10 remote to do this.  Again, I am looking for an 
>>>all-in-one solution.
>>
>>Danger!.  This is not good for inkjets.  You can clog the heads this
>>way.  Inkjets require a push of the button so if they need to they can
>>clean out the heads.  Or at least I've heard.
> 
> 
> Thx Chris.  This is a laser printer, do you happen to know if similar 
> might apply?

Doesn't your laser printer have a power save mode?  I would think that 
you're not going to do much better.

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Until later, Geoffrey